10/VII.

Comrade Bryukhanov!

I have received a letter from Lobachev of 9/VII indicating a sharp deterioration in the supply of Petrograd and Moscow. He is requesting instructions.

In my view, you must develop measures for intensifying work. I propose:

1) in an especially urgent, shock, revolutionary manner, immediately undertake the collection of taxes in Moscow Gubernia (the rye has already been harvested). Mobilize specifically Moscow workers to assist the food supply organs;

2) generally mobilize additional workers for food supply work, seizing personnel from the People's Commissariats in accordance with yesterday's Politburo decision (obtain a copy) 23;

3) send precise orders once more to the Ukrainian and Siberian People's Commissariats of Food Supply;

4) dispatch an emergency expedition (together with the Central Union of Cooperatives) to Podolsk Gubernia, where, it is said, there is a vast quantity of grain and it stands at 6000 rubles per pud in Soviet currency.